It's National Grilled Cheese Day. There's an abundance of great photos and recipes everywhere.

On TV, The Late Late Show seems to be on vacation again this week, it's all repeats. I'm still watching Viceland, alternating with HGTV's Tiny House Hunters. You can watch 5 episodes online here. Who would choose to live in such small spaces? Millennials, mostly it seems. It's apparently now a movement. What an odd generation.[More...]

Paul Ryan claims he won't accept the Republican nomination. Who believes him? NPR tries to make a case for John Kasich.

538 says Ted Cruz has the most endorsements among Republicans in Congress.

Andrew Romano, writing for Yahoo News, lays out Cruz' strategy for California and has some thoughts on the "GOP's Veep problem." During the 2008 election cycle, Andrew wrote for Newsweek. We sat next to each other at a a Romney house party in Iowa and I followed his reporting after that. He's a good reporter.[More...]

Bernie Sanders has moved from trying to convince superdelegates to vote for the "will of the people" to asking superdelegates in states he lost to vote for him anyway. The AP asks if he's trying to have his cake and eat it too.

What’s behind this tactical shift? One possibility is that the Sanders camp realized they would need the votes of at least some superdelegates even in the states he didn’t carry. As the Washington Post points out, caucus states, where Sanders has done the best, tend to have fewer superdelegates to award, so Clinton would still lead Sanders by several hundred superdelegates, even if you gave Sanders all of them in the states he won.

538 says Hillary has a 99% chance of winning the New York primary. Nationally, the AP says, despite his last 7 wins, Hillary still leads both in pledged delegates and popular vote totals.

The Washington Post reports Bernie's latest cake-fest is a long-shot. [More...]

Everyone has a different theory about what's ahead for Republicans and Donald Trump. The media, which pushed him to the top in the first place, has finally begun the backtrack. Is it too late? Is the apparent alternative (Ted Cruz) worse? Is John Kasich relevant?

In The 2016 U.S. Presidential Race: A Cheat Sheet, an article assessing the state of the race for the presidential nomination, with a section on each of the current and former contenders for all parties, the Atlantic writes about Trump:

Who is he?
America’s sweetheart—well, America’s high-school sweetheart, the one you get embarrassed thinking about decades later.

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I have no idea who .Mic News is or why Google News is promoting its stories above mainstream media articles on its News home page. But .Mic should fire its headline writer and Google needs a new algorithm for picking news articles. Example: This headline is false and inexcusable. And it's the number one story on my Google News page.

Obama did not say intervention in Libya was the worst mistake of his Presidency. He said he still supports intervening in Libya, his worst mistake was in failing to plan for the day after the intervention. The quote:

“Probably failing to plan for the day after,” Obama said in the session, which was taped at the University of Chicago on April 7. He added that intervening in Libya “was the right thing to do.”

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There is no huge fight for Republican delegates in Colorado. Donald Trump isn't here. Colorado is off his radar. Ted Cruz can have the state's delegates.

"The process here doesn't lend itself to our kind of campaign," said Alan Cobb, a senior Trump adviser based in Kansas who is on the ground in Colorado Springs. "Our expectations are really low. If we get a delegate number higher than zero, it's going to be a success."

Kasich isn't coming to Colorado either. He has sent ex-Sen. John Sununu to pitch for him. Sununu claims Republicans will lose the U.S. senate and the state legislature to Dems if Trump is the nominee. [More...]

So it took Hillary five swipes to get her metrocard to work in the New York Subway. At least she had a card. Bernie thought subways still use tokens.

But in an interview with the editorial board of The Daily News this month, Mr. Sanders bungled a question about the New York City subway. “You get a token and you get in,” he said, even though tokens were long ago replaced by MetroCards. The tabloid also marked Mr. Sanders’s turn toward New York with a cover story this week attacking his position on granting immunity to gun manufacturers.

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Forget Wisconsin, all eyes are moving to New York. NY is Trump territory for sure, he's largely favored to win there.

As to Hillary and Bernie, the Washington Post has this report on delegates today. Shorter version: Hillary's far ahead (700 votes) in total delegate votes, leading Bernie 1,749 to 1,061. [More...]

Amnesty International has released a report on global executions for 2015. More people were executed than in any year in the past 25 years.

89 % were killed by three countries, Iran, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. (China's exact numbers are unknown, but they are known to be very high.)

The U.S. ranks 5th in the number of people executed in 2015.

The top five executioners in the world in 2015 were China, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the USA – in that order.

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If it walks like a duck....The Governor of Mississippi claims the anti-gay bill he just signed is an expression of religious freedom not discrimination. Baloney.

The bill, H.R. 1523, as sent to the Governor, is here.

The Governor and legislature call it an anti-discrimination bill -- it prevents legal action against those who discriminate against gays and transgenders, provided they say they are doing so for religious and moral reasons.

What a shameful and disgusting bill.